Frank Giraldo
Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California 93943 USA
PhD Dissertations
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John Dea, High-Order Non-Reflecting Boundary Conditions for the Linearized Euler Equations (September 2008) (PDF).
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Marco Restelli, worked with me at NPS for one year (2009-2010) although I was not his formal advisor.
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Joseph Lindquist, Unstructured High-Order Galerkin-Temporal-Boundary Methods for the Klein-Gordon Equations with Non-Reflecting Boundary Conditions (June 2010) (PDF).
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Simone Marras, worked with me at NPS for one year (2010-2011) although I was not his formal advisor.
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Patrick Mugg, Extrapolated Multirate Methods for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations (June 2021) (PDF).
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Masters Theses
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Thomas DeLuca, Performance of Hybrid-Eulerian-Lagrangian-Semi-Implicit for Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Atmospheric Modeling (NPS, June 2007) (PDF).
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Luke Spence, On the Calculation of Particle Trajectories from Sea Surface Current Measurements and their use in Satellite Sea Surface Products off the Central California Coast (NPS, December 2007) (PDF).
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Sean Gibbons, Impacts on Sigma Coordinates on the Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations for Continuous Galerkin Methods (NPS, June 2009) (PDF).
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Dimitrios Alevras, Simulating Tsunamis in the Indian Ocean with Real Bathymetry by using a High-Order Triangular Discontinuous Galerkin Oceanic Shallow Water Model (NPS, June 2009) (PDF).
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Patrick Mugg, Construction and Analysis of Multi-Rate Partitioned Runge-Kutta Methods (NPS, June 2012) (PDF).
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Karoline Hood, Modeling Storm Surges using Discontinuous Galerkin Methods (NPS, June 2016) (PDF).
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Alice Ragni, A Comparative Study of Numerical Fluxes for the Discontinuous Galerkin Approximation of the Navier-Stokes Equations for Stratified Turbulent Flows (University of Brescia, March 2021) (PDF).
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Jessica Riggs, Semi-Infinite Elements for Non-Reflecting Boundary Conditions (NPS, June 2024) (PDF).
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Mervin Jean-Louis, Non-Oscillatory Central-Upwind Scheme for the Thermal Rotating Shallow Water Equations (University of Mauritius, in progress).
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Postdoctoral Students
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James F. Kelly (now at the Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC)
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Shivasubramanian Gopalakrishnan (now at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, India Institute of Technology-Bombay, Assoc. Prof.)
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Michal Kopera (now at the Department of Mathematics, Boise State University, Assoc. Prof.)
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Andreas Müller (now at European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting, Reading UK)
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Simone Marras (now at Department of Mechanical Engineering, NJIT, Assoc. Prof.)
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Daniel Abdi (now at NOAA ESRL)
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Maciej Waruszewski (now at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque NM)
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Sergey Charnyi (now at Siemens)
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Felipe Alves (now at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
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Thomas Gibson (now at AMD)
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Sohail Reddy (now at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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Soonpil Kang (now at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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Kiran Jadhav (at NPS, June 2023-Present)
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PhD/MS Committees Served
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Rashmi Mittal, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi India (PhD Fall 2008).
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USAF Major Lou Lussier, Naval Postgraduate School, Meteorology (PhD Spring 2010).
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USN Lieutenant Beth Sanabia, Naval Postgraduate School, Meteorology (PhD Spring 2010).
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Michael Bell, Naval Postgraduate School, Meteorology (PhD Spring 2010).
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Nathan Moshman, Naval Postgraduate School, Mechanical Engineering (PhD Summer 2011).
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USAF Major Neil Sanger, Naval Postgraduate School, Meteorology (PhD Fall 2011)
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Simone Marras, Polytechnic University of Cataluyna and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Committee Chairman (PhD December 2012).
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USN Commander Linda Craugh, Naval Postgraduate School, Mechanical Engineering (PhD Spring 2012).
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USN Commander Stu Blair, Naval Postgraduate School, Mechanical Engineering (PhD Spring 2012).
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Sue Chen, Naval Postgraduate School, Meteorology (PhD December 2014).
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USA Major Randy Boucher, Naval Postgraduate School, Applied Mathematics (PhD December 2014).
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Derek Steinmoeller, University of Waterloo, Mathematics (PhD June 2014).
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USN LCDR Eric Edwards, Naval Postgraduate School, Oceanography (PhD December 2015).
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Jorge Guerra, University of California - Davis, Atmospheric Sciences (PhD June 2018).
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Giovanni Minelli, Naval Postgraduate School, Space Systems (PhD August 2018).
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USA LtCol Patrick Mugg, Naval Postgraduate School, Applied Mathematics (Phd August 2021).
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Martin Rodriguez, UC Santa Cruz, Applied Mathematics (PhD candidacy exam July 2021).
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Sergio Aldair Castiblanco Ballesteros, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia, Civil Engineering (MS November 2021).
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Lara Magallanes, Naval Postgraduate School, Space Systems (PhD December 2022).
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Manuel Colera Rico, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, Industrial Engineering (PhD February 2023).
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Ian May, UC Santa Cruz, Applied Mathematics (PhD February 2024).
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High School and Undergraduate Students
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Jonathan Wang (UC Berkeley, 2009)
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Joshua Kim (UC, Berkeley, 2010)
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Doru Hutanu (US Naval Academy, 2010)
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Edward Nugent (Santa Clara University, 2011, 2012, 2013)
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Haley Lane (Princeton University, 2012, 2013)
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Katherine Longobardi (Columbia University, 2014)
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Cailyn Schmidt (UC Berkeley, 2015).